PMO CoP: Facilitating Meetings People Want to Attend

Abstract: 

Meetings are the bane of everyone’s work existence and are expensive. Rabbit holes, compulsive contributors dominating, unprepared attendees, uninvolved participants, forgotten or rehashed decisions. It can be a wasted investment. 

A PMO can play an important role in federating good meeting practices to the organization in a way that makes them more interesting and more productive for your attendees, with decisions that stick. There are some very simple practices that can turn even status meetings into something people enjoy. 

Join us to better understand how to facilitate a meeting people will love by learning how to:

• Articulate strong meeting purpose 
• Facilitate meetings with a question agenda 
• Facilitate divergence and convergence to make better decisions 
• Quickly measure participants sentiment 

Speaker Profile:

Stephanie Sackman, Senior Program and Enablement Manager, is the portfolio manager for Pendo’s Success organization where she facilitates productive annual and quarterly planning sessions, manages the portfolio of annual Success projects and enjoys working with the Chief of Staff to the CEO on annual Pendo projects that are helping to fuel product-led growth. Stephanie has spent the last 20 years as a consultant and a practitioner managing large programs and helping customers successfully adopt Agile and SAFe. Stephanie has held her PMP for 15 years and has numerous Agile and SAFe certifications